Crowell Family History

English: habitational name from a lost place called Crowell in Spofforth (Yorkshire) or from a place in Oxfordshire named Crowell from Old English crāwe ‘crow’ + well(a) ‘spring stream’. Americanized form of German Grauel.

Americanized form of Dutch Krouwel or Crouwel: from Middle Dutch crauwel ‘trident hook claw’ a metonymic occupational name for someone using this kind of tool or a topographic or habitational name referring to a house or inn named In de Crouwel (‘In the Trident Hook’) with such a device depicted on the signboard.